On the street, the people interviewed by Jovem Pan talk about decent wages of up to R$5,000 to support their families
ANDRé RIBEIRO/FUTURA PRESSE/ESTADÃO CONTENT
Seven years after his ouster from the presidency of the Brazilian RepublicDilma Rousseff (PT) becomes President of BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), a group of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. At the institution, founded in 2014, she will a monthly salary close to R$ 220,000, about R$ 2.65 million per year. The bank will offer Dilma services such as medical care, travel support to the country of origin, relocation grants on hiring and firing, and air transport. In Brazil, the situation is dividing opinions. For this reason, a team of reporters from Jovem Pan took to the streets of São Paulo to ask ordinary people what living wage they think they should be paid to support their families. For Marcela Soares Pereira, sales promoter, a salary that would be compatible with what she needs to survive “would be over R$ 2,000. My rent alone today is R$ 1,000. The minimum wage does not exceed R$ 1,500”. Rosimery Macedo, an administrative assistant, doesn’t like the salary she receives: “Nowadays, an ideal salary for me, since I’m a family mother, I have a house, I think it would be R$ 5,000”.
International Relations student Manuela Hanburdy says she cannot imagine what it would be like to earn R$220,000: “The goal after graduation is a high, dignified salary, R$220,000 would be a dream. For a month it would be more than a dream, it would be unreal”. Clécia Dias Soares, a sales promoter living on the minimum wage, comments on the reality of Brazilians and says she doesn’t know what to do with so much money: “Everything is very expensive, the cost of living, the food . Only those who live on the minimum wage know the miracles that we perform in the market. If I made all that a month I don’t know what I would do because we’re so used to making minimum wage that when we get the money we’ll spend it and get poor again.”
Alan Ghani, chief economist at SaraInvest and commentator for Jovem Pan News, says the salary the former president at BRICS bank will earn is on par with celebrities and executives who earn more than they receive. “This is the salary of a great TV host, a celebrity, a football player. In fact, they deserve it because they deliver. Somehow they generate a lot of income for society. Neymar for example, whether he thinks it’s fair or not for the guy to win, when he steps on the field, there’s a whole industry moving around him,” he argues. The economist recalls that Dilma was charged with the practice of rudder cycling, late payments to public banks and issuing decrees opening credit without the approval of the National Congress. “A public bank cannot finance the government. And it happened that because of bad governance, the government started receiving money from Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco do Brasil, but it didn’t pay. And it has accumulated a huge liability. After a year, this liability was too great. how can i have Imagine that in the private sector, it would be unthinkable that everyone who committed a crime would be hired,” he adds.
*With information from reporter David de Tarso